Ebola is increasingly in the news with much information - and misinformation - in the media. The following are extracts adapted from two blog posts by Symplur [1,2], who are not only following the spread of information about this disease, but also looking at whether organisations and people who know much about Ebola are able to influence this … [Read more...]

The third and last in our series of keynote speaker interviews by Australian Pain Society at their annual conference. This one is by Professor Michael Nicholas on adherence.
Michael Nicholas is Professor at the Sydney Medical School, Director of the ADAPT program at the Royal North Shore Hospital and also Director of the Graduate Pain … [Read more...]

The second of three keynote speaker interviews by Australian Pain Society at their annual conference: Dr Andrew Moore on evidence and pain and the effectiveness of certain types of drugs.
Dr Andrew Moore is Director of Pain Research, Nuffield Department of Anaesthetics, University of Oxford, and Chairman of the International Association for the … [Read more...]

The Australian Pain Society recently held their annual conference (and what a conference it was) and interviewed their keynote speakers. This is the first of three - Prof Jeff Mogil on the nature and nurture of pain.
Professor Jeffrey Mogil is currently the E.P. Taylor Professor of Pain Studies and the Canada Research Chair in the Genetics of … [Read more...]

A little while ago we ran an experiment looking at social media and whether it has any influence on people reading original research papers[1] (Lorimer is going to talk more about the actual experiment in the next blog). While we were in the process of considering our results I was surprised by the fact that there were no clear definitions of … [Read more...]

All those fabulous people who did Ride for Pain at your place! have completed their rides and those who could sent their photos and movies in. Click on the gallery pics and they get bigger. In no particular order here are....
The Norse Vikings - Norway
httpv://youtu.be/w0656e_4FRA
More pics here and for you keenies click on the picture … [Read more...]

“Variability is the law of life, and as no two faces are the same, so no two bodies are alike, and no two individuals react alike and behave alike under the abnormal conditions which we know as disease."
- William Osler On the Educational Value of the Medical Society, In Aequanimitas, p.331
As we know there have been any number of chronic pain … [Read more...]

Scientific conferences usually have a poster section which provide a rich and condensed source of some of the research that is currently being done around the globe. The International Association for the Study of Pain congress in Milan had a huge array, hundreds of new posters every day, ranging from sleep disorders to the genetic determinants of … [Read more...]

This is an auspicious day. On this day in 2009 BiM published its first blog post. We have come a long way since a conversation a bit over three years ago when Heidi persuaded Lorimer to try blogging as a new way to help overcome the divide between scientist and clinician.
Now we have about 3,800 visits to the site EVERY week from all over the … [Read more...]

A recent article in the Journal of Medical Internet Research (JMIR)[1] looked at whether it is feasible to measure social impact of, and public attention to, newly published research articles by analysing buzz in social media - specifically twitter. It also asked whether these metrics are sensitive and specific enough to predict highly cited … [Read more...]

Lorimer is coming to York!

In this first course in the UK for several years, Lorimer will lead you through his 'highlights of pain' tour, visiting the conceptual underpinnings of modern pain rehabilitation, cutting edge pain-related cognitive and clinical neuroscience, critical pain-related thinking, clinical reasoning and treatment principles.

From Painful Yarns, to Explaining Pain Better, to Biologically Based Graded Exposure, the Cortical Body Matrix and the Imprecision Hypothesis, it will be intense, but it will also be scientifically sound, evidence based, clinically applicable and fun!
WHEN: 20 – 21 May 2015
WHERE: National Science Learning Centre, University of York
Reserve your place: joanna@noigroup.com, phone +44(0) 1904737919

David Butler | Bob Coghill | Lorimer Moseley | Kevin Vowles

Registrations are OPEN

for probably the best little pain meeting in the world - PainAdelaide 2015, March 30th 2015, at the Adelaide Convention Centre.

Prof Bob Coghill, a world leader on the neurophysiology and neuroimaging of pain, including mindfulness and mediation effects, section editor for the poshest journal in our field - PAIN.Prof Glen King, one of the most important molecular scientists in the country, Glenn does fascinating work extracting venoms from spiders, scorpions and the like and using them to develop novel drugs to treat chronic pain. He has a habit of publishing in very posh journals and is a fabulous presenter.Prof Peter O’Sullivan, one of the planet’s most innovative and enthusiastic clinical scientists, consistently ranked by Expertscape in the top 10 low back pain researchers on the planet. Peter will share his immense clinical insights and research discoveries.A/Prof Stuart Brierley, a world authority on inflammation and the gut and at the forefront of innovative interdisciplinary methods to develop new treatments for inflammatory bowel syndrome.Prof Kevin Vowles, one of the leading experts internationally on the application of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy to the management of people in pain.Dr Jim Hearn, scriptwriter and chef, author of the acclaimed High Season, an account of his painful journey into and out of heroin addiction - 2015’s Left-field presenter..Register here

APS 2015

Call for abstracts and scholarship applications

The IASP’s Pain, Mind and Movement SIG and South African chapter will host a congress from 22-24 May 2015, in Johannesburg, South Africa. See the Pain Congress for details and to submit an abstract by 27 March 2015, and see this document for the details of two scholarships being offered by the Pain, Mind and Movement SIG (applications close on February 28th).

Applications due for European Pain School 2015

Young scientists from all countries at the PhD or post-doc levels (or equivalent) in all fields of pain science and pain medicine are encouraged to apply to attend the European Pain School 2015.
The deadline is February 6 for the IASP-sponsored educational program, which runs June 7-14 in Siena, Italy.

Awareness of our physical ability is critically important when we decide on what actions to take. Can I reach that far?, Can I walk on that path?, Can I step that high? This is particularly important for older people whose physical function declines with age and who are at increased risk of falls (Lord et […]

Siobhan Moylan, a science and media communicator at Neuroscience Research Australia, recently conducted this insightful interview with Professor Simon Gandevia. In the interview, Professor Gandevia talks at length about motor impairment, which is the focus of a recent NHMRC Program Grant entitled ‘Motor Impairment: basic and applied human neurophysiology’. The post Interview with Professor […]

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